•Players and supporters from Lancashire club organised fight back
•Local tradesman blocks entrance with lorry to prevent more incursions
•Volunteers plug remaining gaps on 24-hour shift basis through the night
•Police and council obtain a court order to have the travellers removed today

"REVOLUTION,- A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed."​

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.​

You were right Druscilla Cotterill

None of the ideas expressed above are actually mine. They are told to me by Hilda Ogden and the Musical Director of the Trans-Global Male Voice Choir , the five inch tall space aliens who live under my desk.
In return for these ideas, I have given them permission to eat any Dragon Poo they may find under there.

i dont think the freeloading scumbags would of been too happy if a cricket match was played on the pitch they were infesting. score six for a boundary and 12 if you smash the ball through their windows

the police are far too soft on these creatures, so community direct action is really the only way forwards. if they wont move, light bonfires on your land right beside their vans... they'd soon feck off

If only more communities stuck together instead of complaining from behind twitching net curtains.
It would help sort out everything from wayward teenagers to speeding motorists. We've had problems with the former in the past, the parents stuck up for their troublesome kids and nobody else dared intervene!:Angry: The village was like the wild west until they grew up and discovered girls!
Well done those people! How dare those travelers interfere with village cricket!

Why couldn't the police arrest the ones who damaged the square for criminal damage?

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Probably too difficult to identify the actual individual without seeing the act themselves.

So far this year we have stayed at C&CC rallies at a rugby club, a cricket club and two football clubs. Obviously those are all official, the clubs receive a welcome injection of funds to keep them going and no litter is left nor trouble caused.

Hopefully the actions of these anti-social/criminal individuals will not put clubs off continuing to allow their grounds to be used for responsible events.

•Players and supporters from Lancashire club organised fight back
•Local tradesman blocks entrance with lorry to prevent more incursions
•Volunteers plug remaining gaps on 24-hour shift basis through the night
•Police and council obtain a court order to have the travellers removed today

We have a large group of " travellers " on our local football/ recreation field. I shall be sleeping with my windows open. This happens every year in the run up to the Great Dorset Steam Fair, which saddens me to say that I shall never be going to again. My grandfather helped Mike Oliver set it up and I went for the first 25 years. My last visit a year ago terrified me, groups of grubby looking males eyeing up anything in sight. Even saw the police pull over a teenage girl carrying a pair of bolt choppers. I have never felt so unsafe in my life. My friend who shows a small engine said that they have to have 24 hour police security round their vehicles. What a sad state of affairs. I went to school with many gypsies who are disgusted by these so called travellers and do not wish to be associated with them at all. And by the way.....the burglary rate has suddenly risen in my area.......can't think why!!!

Should have added that I didn't go to the Steam Fair for many years due to work before attending last year, to say I was shocked would be an understatement. And it should also have read ......bolt croppers. Flipping auto correct:Sad: